No Such Thing As SAYANG

SAYANG. That's one of the words I kept repeating to myself before.

Sayang ang opportunity. Sayang ang pera. Sayang ang talent. Sayang ang potential. Sayang ang ________.

It got so bad that I started saying, "Sayang lang ako."

Why? Coz people kept telling me how great my potential was, how overqualified I was, how my future was so bright and promising.

And then I looked at my own accomplishments and say, "I'm doing good, but this isn't living up to what people say I could be. I am wasting all my talent and potential. If only I did more."

Here's the realization that changed all that: Nothing ever passes us by.

Sometimes, we don't see the opportunity. It's probably because we're not ready for it yet. But it's there. It has always been there.

Sometimes, we do see it. But we run away or mess it up. Because that was a lesson we probably needed to learn. And this may repeat a couple of times, until we finally get the lesson.

And sometimes, we make it. And we tell the universe, "What took you so long?" But in reality, we were the ones taking time. And that's ok. Because we needed that time to get ready.

There's no such thing as sayang. This world is not a myriad of coincidences because everything happens in perfect harmony.

And no, I am not sayang. And you are most definitely not sayang either.